How to format your references using the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J. Marino, On the road again, Science 344 (2014) 1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Shen, L.C. Ho, The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation, Nature 513 (2014) 210–213.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z.M. Smith, B. Delgutte, A.J. Oxenham, Chimaeric sounds reveal dichotomies in auditory perception, Nature 416 (2002) 87–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.Y. Cohen, C. Miller, K.J. Bitterman, N.R. Wall, B. Hekking, B. Kessler, K.T. Howitz, M. Gorospe, R. de Cabo, D.A. Sinclair, Calorie restriction promotes mammalian cell survival by inducing the SIRT1 deacetylase, Science 305 (2004) 390–392.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

H.J.E. Rodda, M.A. Little, Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

X. Gong, Social Group Utility Maximization, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.J. Croog, M.J. Zelefsky, Pathophysiology of Erectile Dysfunction Following Radiation Therapy, in: J.P. Mulhall (Ed.), Sexual Function in the Prostate Cancer Patient, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2009: pp. 55–67.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Do You Know Which Organ This Is?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-you-know-which-organ-this-is/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.A. Sparks, Charismatic leadership: An exploratory investigation of the techniques of influence, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

J. Kanter, S. Castle, E.U. Leaders Talk Tough on ‘Brexit,’ New York Times (2016) A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biol. Macromol.
ISSN (print)	0141-8130
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Structural Biology General Medicine